Poecilotiphia parvula (F. SMITH 1855)

Boni, M., 2008, Contribution to the knowledge of the Palaearctic Meriini (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2), pp. 1367-1397 : 1378

Poecilotiphia parvula (F. SMITH 1855)

Meria parvula F. SMITH Lectotypus: Albania = / Albania / (rounded) / parvula Sm Type / /Type/ (rounded wit red outer ring) //B.M. type Hym 151505/ / Lectotypus Myzine parvula F. Smith 1855 Gorbatovsky des 1979 / /Dermasothes parvulus F. Smith Gorbatovsky det 1979/, BMNH!

E x a m i n e d s p e c i m e n s:

: Greece = (1) / Faliraki beach, Rhodes 22.VIII.1979 / / Meria parvula det. M.C. Day 1976), BMNH; (1) / Rhodes , Ixia s.l. 26.VI.1981 K. Guichard /, BMNH .

Azeirbajan = (2) / Aзербайджан Апперонский п- в окр. Мардакяани 17.8.86 Горбатовский В./ /dono Gorbatovsky 1988/, MSNG; (1) / Aзербайджан лерчк палакеран Х. Алчеб. 6.VII.1985 / /dono Gorbatovsky 1988/, MSNG. Greece = (4) / Graecia 1896 Steind. Don /, MHNW; (1) / Kruiper 1869 Graec /, MHNW; (1) / Lithochoron 7.VIII.1965 / / Hellas Makedonia Blommers e a./, ZMA; (3) / Hellas Mykonos North bay 10.8.73 Wim Klein /, ZMA; (1) / Hellas Kriti Iraklion 18.8.73 Wim Klein /; ZMA; (2) / Hella sKriti Palaeokastron 22.8.73 Wim klein/, ZMA; (1) / Hellas Kos Mastimari 24. VI/11 .VII-1978 M.C. & G. Krusemann /, ZMA; (1) / Hellas Kos Kardamena 1/ 7-VII-1978 M.C.& G. Krusemann /, ZMA; (206) / Peloponissos hellas 5 km S. Monemvasia (various date from June 1982 to August 1987)/, (199) ZMUC, (7) MZUF; (1) / Grecia: Creta Istron, K. Mirabellou on Rubus sp., 1.VIII.1988 Boni Bartalucci leg./, MZUF; (11) / Grecia Peloponneso Loutra Kylini spiaggia VII.1989, Boni Bartalucci leg./, MZUF; (1) / Rodi, Paradisi spiaggia su Foeniculum 2.VIII.1990 Boni Bartalucci leg./, MZUF; (1) / Greece Attiki Dafni 10 km W Athens 2.IX.1991, Th Patanidou & G. Priebe – malaise trap in phrigana/, ZMA; (4) / Greece Pelopon. 20 km N. Pilo Marathopoli 8.7.97 leg Marek Halada /, OLML; (23) / Grecia Peloponneso Argolide Salandi 15- 26/VIII/1997 Boni Bartalucci leg./, MZUF. Chypre = (1) / Cherkes / / Limassol VIII.933 Is. Cipro mavromoustakis/ / Meria cypria Typus! Det Dott. D. Guiglia / / TYPUS /, MSNG; (1) / Cypr. Paphos Yeroskypos 20.7.39 Hk. Lindb /, MHNW; (2) / Cyprus Larnaca salt lake 30. VI.1971 M.J. & J.D. Duffels / / Meria cypria Guiglia det. R. Hensen 1986/, ZMA; (1) / Cyprus Larnaca 4 km N Famagusta 2.VII.1971 M.J. & J.D. Duffels // Meria cypria Guiglia det. R. Hensen 1986/, ZMA; (54) / Cypern Aya Napa 10 km W Capo Greco 13-23. VI.1983 /, (52) ZMUC, (2) MZUF. Makedonia = (1) / Macedonia Sr Dorjan 04.06.1974 Leg Halada /, ZMUC. Turkey = (1) / Transkauk Helenendorf 1896/, MHNW; (4) / AS. MIN. ANKARA 70 km. S veget. Stepp. ed ombrellifere 4.VII.62 A.G. Soika / / ankarensis / / Paratypus / (red) / Poecilotiphia parvula (SM.) Gorbatovsky det 1988 /, MSNG; (1) / Turkiye Nevsehir H. vOorschot, H. v.d. Brink & H. Wiering / / Road Goreme-Urgup 1000-1100 St 132 4.VIII.1983 /, ZMA; (1) / Turkiye Gaziantep H. V. Oorschot & H. Wiering / / 43 km WNW Kilis 600m Gozkaya 29.IX.91 st.767/, ZMA; (1) / Turkiet (Asiatisk) Pamukkale 10.7.1974 B.M. Kristensen leg./, ZMUC .

Male. Figs 65-68 . Specimen from Loutra Kylini (Peloponissos) compared to Lectotype.

D i s c u s s i o n: The male can be well known by the Tsa fused to form a frontal ledge, the moderately transversal head in frontal aspect, the subparallel sides without anterior strangling of N 1 disk in dorsal aspect, the short and stout lobes of the epipygium (7 th tergum). The specimens from Chypre show a somehow more elongated flagellomeri and a protruding lamellar metapleural flange which looks like a sort of ledge upon the Em 3. The specimens from Azeirbagian show too a somehow slender flagellum (which is entirely bright reddish) and metasoma. I have not seen specimens certainly ascribed to it from Turanic region nor from Middle East so its distribution area appear to be the southern Balcanic peninsula, southern Russia, Anatolian peninsula with Kaucasus and Chypre. There are no definitive proof about the conspecifity of the females here quoted, but the Day‘s inference is very probably correct.

Figures

Figs 65-68: Poecilotiphia parvula. (65) head, frontal aspect; (66) head and pronotum, dorsal aspect; (67) pronotum, lateral aspect; (68) 7 th tergum, dorsal aspect. Figs 69-73: Poecilotiphia pseudofasciculata Paratype. (69) head, frontal aspect; (70) head dorsal aspect; (71) pronotum, dorsal aspect; (72) pronotum, lateral aspect; (73) 7th tergum, dorsal aspect.